Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 301 40 American Physics Family

Bohr, who came out of Denmark, first went to the Cavendish Laboratory to follow Thomson Sr., and then went to Manchester to follow Rutherford. After completing his studies, he returned to Copenhagen and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in the same year as Einstein. Academic awards.

Although the Copenhagen School has not been successfully established, Bohr's life was smooth sailing for the first half of his life, which allowed him to develop a relatively strong character.

This is evident from the fact that every young scholar who visits the Institute of Theoretical Physics will be tortured when discussing problems with Bohr in his office.

Heisenberg is a very smart young man, but now he is hiding far away on the platform of Lyon Station and does not dare to come over because he is afraid that Bohr will cause trouble for him.

At the beginning, I promised to feel sorry for Bohr and persuade him that there was no need to be arrogant and aggrieved. When he was old, he personally crossed the ocean to England and paid three visits to Chen Muwu, so Heisenberg volunteered to do it for him.

As a result, this assistant never came back. He stayed at Cambridge University without speaking for several months. Even after Christmas and New Year's Day, he still refused to return to Denmark from Germany.

Bohr didn't know what kind of ecstasy drug Chen Muwu had given to Heisenberg, and he had long been full of resentment. So the first thing after meeting in Paris today, he couldn't help but find his good junior brother Chen Muwu to come and question him. .

"Professor Bohr, what's wrong with you? Dr. Heisenberg was not forced to stay at Cambridge University by me, but during our discussion, he happened to come across a topic that interested him, so Dr. Heisenberg applied Stay in the Cavendish Laboratory for a longer period of time to complete this project."

Today, Heisenberg did not dare to come and greet his teacher. He hid in an invisible corner in an attempt to divert trouble. Although Chen Muwu had a smile on his face, he was not willing to suffer this loss.

Although the topic of quantum field theory was deliberately raised by Chen Muwu in order to attract these visiting geniuses and keep them in Cambridge, even if Dr. Chen has bad intentions, doesn't Dr. Hai not have [-]% responsibility?

What made Bohr angry about Chen Muwu was not only his attempt to poach Heisenberg.

Talent exchanges were quite common. Although Heisenberg's reason for applying to Cambridge University was to poach people, it was not too outrageous, but staying for half a year or something was not too outrageous.

Bohr felt that Chen Muwu really touched upon his negative side when he said that he was not suitable for the Nordic climate and was unwilling to go to Copenhagen to do research with him at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, but at the same time he secretly went to the capital of Sweden, which also belongs to Northern Europe. , quietly established a physics research institution similar to the Institute of Theoretical Physics.

Then Stockholm is higher than Copenhagen and closer to the Arctic Circle. Why is he not afraid of the cold this time?
The matter of building a school was raised by the Crown Prince of Sweden at the welcome dinner in Sihai when he visited China in the autumn.

No one in Europe wants to read news about the Far East. Sweden is not a news hotspot. In addition, education news does not receive much attention. Together, basically no one in Europe cares about it.

But for the Dane Bohr, neighboring Sweden was at his doorstep. He could cross the Oresund Strait from Copenhagen to Malmö, and then take a one-night train to Stockholm, which was much more convenient than going to the UK and France.

If there is any disturbance in Stockholm, he can also feel it in Copenhagen.

This is what made Bohr the most angry. After you Chen Muwu complete your studies, you will go back to your own China and run schools as you like, and teach students as you like.

But by building the school in Stockholm, isn't this a naked attempt to compete with yourself?

Bohr, who had not seen Chen Muwu for a long time, had a lot of dissatisfaction with the former in his heart, mostly because of this.

In front of so many people, he was too embarrassed to accuse directly, so he chose a very tactful way to bring up the topic.

"So, does it seem to be a misunderstanding? I read the "Lecture Notes on Quantum Science" compiled by you. Except for the mathematical part, which is a little more esoteric, other parts are well detailed and well written. In the future, we will theoretically The research of physics depends entirely on young people like you.

"By the way, Dr. Chen, I heard that you established a new school in Stockholm. Congratulations!"

He said it was congratulations, but the expression on Bohr's face was like a pool of stagnant water, and it didn't look like he was congratulating him at all.

Chen Muwu probably understood what Bohr was thinking, so he quickly explained to him that things were not as he imagined. The one in Stockholm was a school whose main purpose was to train students, not a research institute like Copenhagen. , bringing together various high-end talents to conduct research together, and there will be no competitive relationship between the two.

Although that is said, no one can stop the teachers hired by the school from doing scientific research when they do not have teaching tasks, right?
Bohr's expression softened slightly, and a French railway employee wearing a large-brimmed hat appeared on the platform in time, which saved Chen Muwu's life.

Amid the urging of "Everyone please get on the train," physicists from all over the world boarded the train carrying their luggage.

Reporters from various newspapers in Paris also took advantage of this last short period of time to press the shutter of their cameras frantically, trying to take more news photos.

The train this time was made by Italy on the existing train lines, and they paid a lot of money to buy a few high-end sleeper cars.

Everyone stayed in different boxes according to their respective origins. Even if Bohr wanted to continue to say something to Chen Muwu, he had to put his luggage back into his box first.

But it is easy to say goodbye, but it is difficult to say goodbye.

Einstein refused to attend the meeting because he boycotted the policies of the bald man in power in Italy.

He is not only the most famous physicist in the eyes of the public, but also in the eyes of physics practitioners.

Everyone felt very sorry that Einstein could not attend the meeting.

But this also means that during this long night-long journey, everyone has more people to visit.

Among the physicists who went to Italy, Lorenz was the oldest. He was several years older than the old Thomson, but his personality was completely opposite to the old Thomson who kept in good health. He was a restless person.

Planck is a few years younger than the two above, and he also likes to run around.

The two eldest men became popular figures visited by others in the train carriage.

In addition, as soon as Bohr arrived at the door of his box, he also met many colleagues who were waiting to meet him.

Although the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen has been established for several years, it is still in the wild Nordic country and it is still inconvenient to go there.

Bohr was unable to attend the Solvay Conference three years ago because of the second-phase expansion project of the institute. Therefore, this was the first time for many people to see this Nobel laureate who won the award for theoretical physics outside of newspapers. Award winner.

After Bohr finally finished meeting the physicists who came to say hello, and wanted to continue "settling accounts" with Chen Muwu, he came to the door of the other party's box, only to find that the meeting in his box was not over yet.

Bohr was a little depressed outside the box door, while Chen Muwu in the box was chatting happily with the visiting guest.

After countless people, Chen Muwu once again met the real person who published the results first.However, after so many experiences, he has been able to blow each other's rainbow farts with Compton without blushing or heart beating.

As Rutherford's first American student, Compton, like Bohr, was Chen Muwu's senior brother.

It's just that he was not as lucky as Bohr. When his results were almost published, they were published first by Chen Muwu, who came from time-travel.

In his previous life, Compton came to attend the Como Conference. He was a strong contender for the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Now, the invitation sent by Italy is actually given to Michelson, the chairman of the physics department of the University of Chicago.

Michelson is older than Lorenz. Although his physique is still strong, who can guarantee that this 75-year-old man will not have physical problems while floating on the Atlantic Ocean for seven days and nights?

Therefore, as the representative of Michelson, the chairman of the physics department, Compton was sent to Europe.

Compton was among the first physicists in the world to know about Chen Muwu, because at that time he was arguing with Professor Du An of Harvard University over whether his experimental paper could be published.

It was Chen Muwu who came out of nowhere and supported his point of view with a paper published in well-known journals in Germany and the UK. However, he also got a step ahead of himself and obtained the right to discover this gamma ray scattering effect. .

After that, Chen Muwu based himself in the Cavendish Laboratory and continuously achieved results one after another in various disciplines, and Compton himself has established a firm foothold at the University of Chicago, a prestigious American physics school: Everyone has a bright future. s future.

Chen Muwu once again came into Compton's sights after the strike last year and the school leaving crisis.

After reading the relevant news in the newspaper, Compton was the first to suggest to the department chair, Michelson, that this incident was the best time to invite Chen Muwu to teach in the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago.

He also proposed two tips for Michelson. One was to contact the presidents and deans of physics departments of other universities in the United States, and the other was to ask Hoover, the next presidential candidate, to come forward and offer help to the old men in Congress. pressure.

Although these two things failed in the end, Chen Muwu also continued to stay at Cambridge University peacefully after the storm.

But this did not delay Compton from detailing to his junior brother the various efforts he had made to enable him to teach at the University of Chicago.

"Professor Compton, you really took the trouble, thank you very much."

"Director Chen, I finally met a real person today, which reminded me once again of the wonderful time I spent at the Cavendish Laboratory.

"If I had come a few years later, I might have been able to engage in physics research with you.

"Well, if the results can really be discovered in the Cavendish Laboratory, then the publication of the paper on gamma rays may not be as bumpy as it was in the United States."

At the end of the sentence, Compton even had some emotion on his face.

Does he miss his student days, or regrets that his results were published first by others?No one can tell.

Chen Muwu himself had no idea about Compton's attitude of wanting to engage in scientific research with him, and he didn't want to swing his little hoe at all.

Unlike Hubble, Compton's base is entirely within the United States.

Moreover, the old Kang family is also a family of education. Compton’s father, Elias Compton, is the principal of Worcester College, a famous private school in the United States. His eldest brother Carl, second brother Wilson and himself all graduated from Princeton University. The graduates are the first family in Princeton to have three PhDs in one subject.

Carl is now the director of the Palmer Laboratory in the Department of Physics at Princeton University and the president of the American Physical Society (APS). He will also become the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the future.

Although the second brother Wilson is not involved in physics, he is now an executive at the Timber Industry Trade Association and will serve as the president of Washington State University in the future.

Arthur, the third child, is not the one who invited me to sit down, but Compton himself. In the future, he will return to Washington University in St. Louis, where he was born, to be the president, and finally retire at the University of California, Berkeley.

With the Compton family's foundation in the United States, even if Chen Muwu wanted to lure him to Stockholm, even if he kicked the Crown Prince of Sweden from the position of principal and let Compton sit in that position, he would probably not be willing to go.

Besides, Compton had just entered the prestigious American physics school Chicago from the little-known Washington University in St. Louis, and became the director of the Metallurgical Laboratory. Who would be willing to go to Sweden, which is both a remote country and an academic desert?

So when faced with Compton's words, Chen Muwu didn't take them seriously at all, and he wasn't even polite.

He is now making friends with his senior brother just to find more connections for himself in the United States.

As for Chen Muwu, who strictly abides by his promise and will not go to the United States easily, what use are his connections in the United States?

"Professor Compton, there is an American student in the Cavendish Laboratory who has been doing research with me for several years, Robert Oppenheimer. I wonder if you have heard of it?
“He is a student of Professor Bridgman of Harvard University. After entering Cambridge University, he did not come to Italy with us this time because he had to write a doctoral thesis.

"If he returns to the United States after graduation in the future, I hope you can take more care of this junior fellow of the Cavendish Laboratory."

Who says the United States is not a humane society?

Oppenheimer has not decided where he will go after graduation. If he does not want to go to Stockholm, but wants to wander abroad for a few years like Ye Gongchao and then return to China for a few years, then making friends with Compton is the best choice.

It is said that the two men will have a good relationship in the future. Compton is not only one of Oppenheimer's spiritual mentors, but it was also because of the former's recommendation that the latter was selected to become the chief director of the Manhattan Project.

Now that Chen Muwu introduced one of them to the other, it only accelerated the process of history.

Bohr waited outside the box for a long time, waiting here and there, but the people inside would not come out, so he had to go back to his box to sleep.

Compton chatted with Chen Muwu for a long time before leaving. He spent the whole night without talking. The next morning, the train had already stopped at the platform of Milan Railway Station.

The staff separated several of their carriages from the train that was going to continue south to Rome. Soon after, a new locomotive arrived and continued the final journey north to Como.

　Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to everyone!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)